One of the main questions our customers ask us is, “What is the difference between continuous and strobe lighting?” Continuous lighting uses a constant light source to light the object, meaning that your lights will stay on during the entirety of your photo shoot. Continuous lighting is recommended for beginners. Strobe lighting uses a flash of light at the moment your camera shutter opens to illuminate your subject. Many professionals use this type of lighting because it offers more control of the light.

Flashes are used in photography to produces an instantaneous flash of artificial light at a color temperature of about 5500K to help illuminate a scene.

Two (2) Light Stands

Two (2) 110 Watt Strobe Flash

Two (2) 16"x 24" Softbox with Spring Ring

Two (2) 13 Foot Sync Cord

Two (2) 50 Watt Model Lights

Two (2) 10 Foot Power Cords

One (1) Carrying Case for the Kit (optional)

Specification

MonolightThe unit mounts onto any standard lightstand with a 5/8" or smaller mounting stud. It has a circular flash tube that is daylight balanced at 5600 deg. K, a guide number of 30 at ISO 100 and a recycling time of 5-7 seconds. It also comes with a 50 watt removable modeling lamp. The Budget Studio monolight Flash can be triggered through the camera with its included 13' sync cord, by another flash being fired and activating the built-in Photo-Slave, or through its open-flash test button. It's a compact 7.0" long with a diameter of 3-3/4" and weighs only 15 ounces.

Softbox: The translucent light produced by these Softboxes has been the photographer's friend for years. The new fabrics are much more resistant to the effects of heat, age and pollution. The color temperature of this new softbox is near neutral, and will stay that way.

My wife and I are new at this but we are very dedicated, I have to tell you... I never do reviews but, We love this lighting kit. We have a small studio in our living room. This kit is perfect for our needs. We also bought a radio remote trigger for the strobe lights. We remote trigger one and slave trigger the other one. Is perfect for our needs.

The info shows. 5-7 seconds recharge, but is more like 3 seconds for us. All our pictures use to be with a speedlite, but now that we have softboxes and the ability to control power on both of them, the lighting is so much better, and the look is very professional. We only use the speedlite to get perfect white, illuminating the background. Comparing our pictures from before we realize that we could never go back. We know that we are not professionals, but for beginners like us, is perfect.